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Sunday, December 31, 1972

1972 Locus Award Nominees

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Comments: One of the things I find most interesting about the Locus Awards is that they are supposed to provide suggestions for Hugo Award voters every year, and yet the categories for the Locus Awards bear only a passing resemblance to the categories for the Hugo Awards. One would think that if you were intending to create a poll for guiding the voters of a particular award, you would be fairly conscientious about making sure your voting categories lined up with the targeted award. In a broad sense, the Locus Award does line up with the Hugo Awards - they both have a Best Novel and Best Short Story category. They both have a Best Fan Artist category, and so on. But they diverge almost as much as they align, which seems to me to kind of defeat the intended purpose of the Locus Award.

Other Nominees:
2. (tie) All the Last Wars at Once by George Alec Effinger
(tie) A Meeting with Medusa by Arthur C. Clarke
4. Wheels by Robert Thurston
5. The Autumn Land by Clifford D. Simak
6. Mount Charity by Edgar Pangborn
7. The Bear with the Knot on His Tail by Stephen Tall
8. World Abounding by R.A. Lafferty

Other Nominees:
2. The Hugo Winners, Volume 2 edited by Isaac Asimov
3. Driftglass by Samuel R. Delany
4. Sturgeon Is Alive and Well . . . by Theodore Sturgeon
5. New Worlds of Fantasy No. 3 edited by Terry Carr
6. Alpha Two edited by Robert Silverberg
7. Partners In Wonder edited by Harlan Ellison
8. All the Myriad Ways by Larry Niven
9. Down in the Black Gang and Other Stories by Philip José Farmer
10. The Science Fiction Hall of Fame, Volume 1 edited by Robert Silverberg
11. Moderan by David R. Bunch
12. The Best from Fantasy & Science Fiction: 19th Series edited by Edward L. Ferman
13. Moonferns and Starsongs by Robert Silverberg
14. (tie) Fun with Your New Head by Thomas M. Disch
(tie) The Ruins of Earth edited by Thomas M. Disch
16. Best SF: 1970 edited by Harry Harrison and Brian Aldiss

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